Why?

Developed Specifically for High School Students

This comprehensive program offers a wealth of print and digital resources to help you meet the needs of high school learners with varied interests and learning abilities.

Updated Content and Case Studies

The updated content provides a balanced approach to environmental topics, including ecology, Earth science, health, and policy issues. Enhanced case studies based on current scientific news stories help you teach concepts while making environmental science relevant to your students. They also develop critical-thinking skills and promote hands-on problem solving.

Full-Featured Teacher Edition

This program offers all the support and strategies you’ll need to match your students' learning styles and abilities. A wealth of activities, teaching resources, and exciting features will ignite discussion and critical thinking.

Widest Array of Labs

Inquiry is the key to understanding science and building critical-thinking skills. Environmental Science offers the largest and most diverse lab and lab support program available for promoting hands-on exploration and application.

Engaging Online Resources

Go Green to expand learning and involvement outside of school hours! The Interactive Online Edition helps students reduce their carbon footprint by providing 24/7 access to all program resources, including EcoZine— an interactive magazine.

Author

Meet our featured author of Environmental Science.

Michael Heithaus - Program Author

Michael Heithaus is the Director of the School of Environment and Society at Florida International University in Miami, FL. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, he and his graduate students study the ecological role of large marine and aquatic predators including sharks, marine mammals, alligators, and sea turtles. Dr. Heithaus also works on predator-prey interactions. In addition to his research, Dr. Heithaus is interested in creating exciting inquiry-based lessons for elementary, middle, and high school students that bring the latest research alive in the classroom. Funded by NSF, he has published more than 60 papers.

Dr. Heithaus is coauthor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ScienceFusion, Holt McDougal Environmental Science, and Holt McDougal Biology: That's Amazing Videos. He received his B.A. in biology from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in biological sciences from Simon Fraser University.

Reading and Vocabulary

Enhanced eBook

This online version of the Student Edition, accessed via the Book Pages tab on hmdscience.com, enables students to access all the textbook pages on a desktop, laptop, or tablet. A separate tab offers access to the Study Guide, audio, and Key Terms definitions, and the Tools menu provides point-of-use access to the Smart Grapher, Periodic Table, full Glossary, FoldNotes, and other interactive features. Additional motivating functionality includes bookmarking, highlighting, note taking, and keyword searches.

Editable Worksheets

Environmental Science offers a variety of editable worksheets that support the development of critical reading skills and comprehension. Active Reading Worksheets, Study Guide, and Critical Thinking worksheets all provide valuable practice and reinforcement.

Teaching Visuals

More than 200 digital illustrations and diagrams (many from the textbook) support and enhance whole-class instruction.

FoldNotes

Ten reading study tools featured in the Appendix of the Student Edition (and in the Teacher Edition wrap) are also demonstrated online in step-by-step animated instructions to help students organize concepts and review main ideas.

Interactive Concept Maps

Available for every chapter, these interactive graphic organizers show the relationships among concepts and help students develop logical thinking and study skills.

Differentiated Instruction

Audio Files in English

The entire Student Edition has been professionally recorded and is available online at point of use to help bolster comprehension. Downloadable to MP3 players.

Map Skills Worksheets

Worksheets designed to improve student map-reading and interpretation skills are ideal for in-class activities or as homework assignments.

EcoZine

This interactive online magazine gives students access to current information from the community and the world, updated regularly with live news feeds and feature articles.

Labs and Data Analysis

Because inquiry is the cornerstone of understanding science concepts, Environmental Science offers the widest array of labs available in a high school program to promote hands-on exploration and application.

Hands-on Labs and Activities

Throughout Environmental Science, teachers will find a variety of online labs to ensure you have just the right lab for your students. All labs include Teacher Notes, and are available in an editable format.

Smart Grapher

The Smart Grapher is a powerful, easy-to-use graphing tool that students can use to create a variety of graphs using their own data—line graphs, circle graphs, and more. You can use it as a stepping-stone before exposing your students to more complex or sophisticated graphing tools.

Worksheets

Provide Practice and Extend Learning

For every chapter in Environmental Science, students will have access to study guide worksheets, datasheets for all the program labs, and a variety of worksheets designed to strengthen reading and science skills.

Active Reading Worksheets

Editable skills worksheets for every section help students learn to analyze text passages to build comprehension. The following skills are emphasized: recognizing cause and effect, sequencing, recognizing similarities and differences, and organizing information. Assign the worksheets as homework, use them to assess reading skills in struggling readers, or help advanced students practice for standardized tests.

Critical Thinking

On these editable worksheets, students use cognitive skills to draw well-reasoned conclusions. Critical-thinking skills covered include distinguishing between fact and opinion; identifying bias; identifying fallacies in logic; judging the authenticity, worth, or accuracy of a position or claim; and synthesizing and evaluating information from various sources.

Map Skills Worksheets

Worksheets designed to improve student map-reading and interpretation skills are ideal for in-class activities or as homework assignments.

Study Guide

Editable skills worksheets help ensure that students understand the key terms and main concepts in each chapter. These can be assigned for homework or used as an in-class review in preparation for the Chapter Test. Also available in the print Study Guide and online in Spanish.

Labs

Assessment Tools

The Perfect Balance for High School Environmental Science

The comprehensive assessment options located in the Interactive Online Edition bring together all of the Environmental Science assessment tools into one convenient place, giving you many choices on the best way to assess student learning.

ExamView® Banks

All chapter and section quizzes are available in these banks online in the Interactive Online Edition and can be customized.

Section Quizzes

Use this quick comprehension check to guide your reteaching options.

Online Section Self-Quizzes

Eight to ten questions for each section provide immediate feedback for students.

Leveled Chapter Tests

Each chapter has two tests—for general and advanced levels—which can be edited directly or customized in ExamView.

Online Assessment and Remediation

For teachers who prefer to deliver online testing with automatic scoring, this option offers a 20-item multiple choice test for every chapter, different from the tests available in ExamView.

ExamView® is a registered trademark of Turning Technologies, LLC.

Additional Resources

Table of Contents

The Table of Contents is available so you can see how Holt McDougal Environmental Science meets your curriculum needs.